Every substantive theoretical project emerges from a specific genetic endowment—a constellation of fields, debates and authors whose concepts it metabolises, whose questions it inherits and whose limits it attempts to exceed. Socioplastics is no exception. The framework now consolidated as Muse, calibrated through its Proportional Scale Index and articulated across ten KORE cores, did not arise from disciplinary vacancy. It crystallised within a dense intellectual ecology, drawing on infrastructures of thought that range from cybernetics to decolonial feminism, from media archaeology to urban political ecology. The following sequence maps this ecology with two distinct axes of reading. The first is genetic: which fields provided the conceptual DNA for Socioplastics? Infrastructure studies contributed the notion of art as operative substrate; ontology furnished the language of scale and objecthood; systems theory supplied recursion and autopoiesis. The second axis is proximity: which fields currently sit closest to Socioplastics in thematic terrain, ready for dialogue, contrast or intervention? Urban studies, posthumanism and sovereignty debates occupy this near field, offering immediate zones of application and friction. The ordering therefore reflects strategic calibration rather than taxonomic neutrality.
Fields of high genetic endowment and high current proximity appear first—they are the core intellectual neighbourhood. Fields of lower genetic contribution but high applicability appear later—they are territories for expansion. Fields of profound genetic influence but lower current visibility appear in the middle depths—they are reserves, to be re-excavated as the project deepens. Presented as a numbered sequence in continuous prose, this cartography functions as an auditable instrument. It allows any claim made within Socioplastics to be traced back to its intellectual antecedents. It also reveals, through the sheer density of the list, what distinguishes Socioplastics from its sources: no single field on this map contains the PlasticScale, the concept of autophagic metabolism or the logic of topolexical sovereignty. The inheritance is acknowledged; the mutation is claimed. Here, then, are one hundred fields and five hundred authors, ordered from highest to lowest proximity to the Socioplastics project—a complete map of the intellectual terrain from which the framework emerges and into which it now intervenes.
Infrastructure Studies, Ontology, Cybernetics, Systems Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Critical Urban Studies, Posthumanism, Sovereignty Studies, Semiotics, Media Archaeology, Complexity Theory, Spatial Justice, Political Ecology, Feminism and Gender Theory, Decolonial Theory, Anthropocene Studies, Relational Aesthetics, Commons Theory, Mobility Studies, Technological Critique, Software Studies, Platform Studies, Environmental Psychology, Phenomenology, Place Theory, Landscape Theory, Urban Ecology, Multispecies Studies, New Materialism, Speculative Realism, Actor-Network Theory, Biopolitics, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Aesthetics, Contemporary Art Theory, Social Practice Art, Spatial Politics, Urban Anthropology, Informality Studies, Urban Marginality, Digital Capitalism, Surveillance Studies, Smart City Theory, Sound Studies, Visual Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Humanistic Geography, Hybrid Geographies, Philosophical Botany, Neuroaesthetics, Perception Theory, Disability Studies, Intersectionality Theory, Utopian Theory, Postmodern Theory, Radical Pedagogy, Globalization Theory, Geopolitics, Marxist Theory, Post-Marxism, Value Theory, Evolutionary Economics, Game Theory, Network Science, Scaling Theory, Complex Systems, Historical Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Interface Theory, Protocol Theory, Maintenance Studies, Critical Infrastructure Theory, Southern Epistemologies, Indigenous Theory, Territorial Feminism, Latin American Political Ecology, Subaltern Studies, Accelerationism, Materialist Philosophy, Post-Operaismo, Immaterialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, Digital Political Economy, Law and Technology, Algorithmic Culture, Urban Media Studies, Spatial Art Theory, Architectural Criticism, Urban Planning Theory, Sustainable Urbanism, Right to the City Theory, Environmental Humanities, Political Theology, Governmentality Studies, Logistics Studies, Data Studies, Institutional Theory.
510-systemic-lock https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18682555 509-postdigital-taxidermy https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18682480 508-topolexical-sovereignty https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18682343 507-citational-commitment https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18475136 506-recursive-autophagia https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18681761 505-proteolytic-transmutation https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18681278 504-stratum-authoring https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18680935 503-semantic-hardening https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18680418 502-cameltag https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18680031 501-flow-channeling https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18678959
